It's Amazon, what did you expect? Enshittification and monopoly abuse, no surprise.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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So you can take the square root of that:
5x+7integral from 5z to 9x derivative of deltaT minus minus multiply times 3. Figure 1
Figure 1 shows a typical lizard living in a square root.
trained on stolen books? then I guess I can download these from anywhere I may find for free as well, right?
Well, yeah, you can. Whoever told you that you can't, don't believe them, they are probably being payed to say it. You could also pay for the book to support the author but most likely your money will not go to the author so don't bother.
free AI read audiobooks coming up
I like your way of thinking
I can get that for free. There are apps that will read an ebook to you already. The whole point of paying the premium on audible is the superior reading/acting. Not put up with mispronounced words, weird cadence and an inability to handle acronyms
I've tried one that works surprisingly well. Each sentence had great pacing, cadence, and correct enunciation- even had tone right when someone was shouting or angry or sad.
I wouldn't really recommend it, though. While I couldn't pick any single thing out that was wrong, overall it just didn't quite flow. It's like watching someone try to act that is technically doing everything right, but it just isn't good. It basically didn't understand the greater context of the story and was saying lines.
It was uncanny valley, but exclusively with voice.
Is there an offline tool that generates realistic audio for epubs as Mp3 ? Something like the free Ai tool, Vibe which is for transcription. Is there something similar for TTS, runs locally without complicated setup ( most are complicated using python and etc just for installation)
I've loaded epubs into the app ReadEra, which lets you read it like any other novel app or will, in real time, read it to you. It's not the most natural of speech, but was good enough for my commute when I was in the midst of a compelling book.
Download TTS Server, and change the engine in Readera to use it. Use the Microsoft Azure settings in TTS, much more realistic. Little slow though is my only complaint as it sends/receives a paragraph at time, resulting in a pause now and again.
How do I do that? Have both readera and tts server on a Samsung Galaxy
Great question! I need to come back to this thread to see if something is suggested.
Looking for iOS recommendations, preferably without a subscription that can read epub/pdf
I'm an android user, so not sure if it's on iOS but I've used ReadEra
I thought people mainly paid for the large library
Beautiful, it works. Why not.
Is voice AI trained on stolen data? I was under the impression that was LLMs.
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